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AndHeHandedHimTheTobaccoJar
Nevrast
Dec 2 2015, 12:18am
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I'm getting hit by some pretty hardcore nostalgia right now. It's around Christmas time, and in just two weeks it will have been three years since I saw the first Hobbit films in theatres. Wow. For the last three years, The Hobbit has been such a big part of my Christmas season. Even if I didn't enjoy the films as much as I anticipated (although I still really loved them), they were such a great holiday tradition. It makes me sad, thinking of myself as a twelve year old kid so excited to watch the Hobbit film he'd been dying to see for over a year, and been reading up on all the news about, and watching all the production videos, and now being in high school, and knowing there isn't another Hobbit movie to look forward to. Oh man, my frame by frame analysis of the first Hobbit trailer, and my guesses at how Fili and Kili (my favorite characters from the book) would die together as brothers, defending their uncle, or how Bilbo would interact with Smaug and Gollum! I also really looked forward to the scene where Bilbo stuck his head out from the canopy of Mirkwood, and just took a deep breath in the beautiful sun and watched the butterflies and the beautiful forest surrounding him. I can say I was not disappointed with that one! Oh well, I guess I'm just rambling now, but still, although it enhances it further, I guess it helps me cope with my nostalgia.
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DainPig
Mithlond
Dec 2 2015, 12:42am
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reading the book some weeks later, just before the movie's release. Then when I watched it, it was so funny to compare the two 
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Lindele
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Dec 2 2015, 1:06am
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I'm a bit older than you and in a different place in life...but I feel the exact same way. Christmas brings strong feelings of middle-earth...going all the way back to 2001 when I first saw FOTR.
Wonderful time.
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DainPig
Mithlond
Dec 2 2015, 1:12am
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I meant earlier, not later
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Beorn's Bees
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Dec 2 2015, 3:48am
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I, too, was 12 when the first Hobbit film came out. I felt like entire life was leading towards these three movies. Good times.
At least we have Star Wars to look forward to!
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Legomir
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Dec 2 2015, 6:15am
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Toward the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011 when the first casting announcements were made... December 2011 when the first trailer came out (on my final day of high school!)... Decembers 2012, 2013, and 2014, where it became a holiday tradition for me and my sister to go see the midnight release. It is strange how huge The Hobbit has been for me, and now other than the final Hobbit Chronicles book I don't have anything else Middle-Earth-related to look forward to this month... I'm not sure how to describe how I feel. I was much younger with The Lord of the Rings, though I loved it and missed not having a new movie to wait for... there was always King Kong coming up for me. Maybe I'd feel better if Peter Jackson had a new movie in the works already, though the man deserves a serious break. I'm rambling too... but these are some of my favorite movies and I am feeling nostalgic for the period around the movies' release as well.
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dormouse
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Dec 2 2015, 8:55am
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Christmas was Lord of the Rings once... then it became The Hobbit. I was driving past my local cinema a week or so ago and it hit me that I didn't even need to look on the board outside to see when the film would be on. There's no new film to look out for now.
But it was so good while it lasted! 
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CathrineB
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Dec 2 2015, 10:58am
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It's not just holiday movies that are a must-see during Christmas, but also LotR and the Hobbit! For this exact reason. Desolation of Smaug in particular gives me christmas feelings and I think it's because of Lake Town because that's when snow starts showing and it's old buildings and all
But yeah eventually it all didn't lead to satisfaction with the last movie, but at least I love the two first movies. I remember how out of my mind excited I was for An Unexpected Journey and how much I hated the 3D lol. Well most seemed to actually XD So I re-watched it in 2D and yeah. Now it's my favorite of the Hobbit movies.
In 2012 I had lost my dog through almost 15 years in october so by the time AUJ came out I was still really at a hard place. And it just brightened my day a little bit more and brought back memories of LotR so for multiple reasons the first movie has a special place to me.
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Elessar
Doriath
Dec 2 2015, 1:02pm
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to not have a Middle-earth film in the theaters to look forward to. We at least have the blu-rays, which we can watch so that helps a bit. It has been an amazing ride since 2001 going to the theaters for trips to see Middle-earth on the big screen. I do expect we shall see them in the theaters again as has happened with LOTR a few times. That being said this was a great journey and I'm glad I/we got to take it. It has been truly life changing for me. :)
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Glorfindela
Doriath
Dec 2 2015, 3:03pm
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Christmas was Lord of the Rings once... then it became The Hobbit. I was driving past my local cinema a week or so ago and it hit me that I didn't even need to look on the board outside to see when the film would be on. There's no new film to look out for now. But it was so good while it lasted!
However, there was much more of anticipation for me when it came to LotR than to The Hobbit. I remember people were going nuts just before RotK came out, and I remember going to the Odeon Leicester Square the first day it showed there: hugh posters, with one covering one quarter of the Square, the cinema completely full and people absolutely buzzing with excitement, and shouting out when certain things happened in the film. The atmosphere was absolutely incredible. I don't think I shall witness such a phenomenon ever again.
I did look forward to The Hobbit films more than to any other films I've seen apart from LotR – especially to DoS before I saw it, after seeing AUJ without paying it much attention beforehand. However, the reactions in general to these films were SO much milder than they were to LotR, which was just everywhere. Those were incredible, magical times…
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Jeffrodo
Nevrast
Dec 2 2015, 3:57pm
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Ha! You were 12 when the first movie came out? I was 42!
It doesn't change, though...I feel like you do. Really anticipated and looked forward to each Hobbit movie, all the production diaries, trailers, etc. Looking forward to the films was almost as fun as the movies themselves. It really has been a journey, hasn't it? My timeline of events:
Years of waiting for The Hobbit to officially happen
Announcements about the cast and crew, including change in directors
Following the amazing (and generous) production diaries
Trailers (it started to get real!)
Books and merchandise
An Unexpected Journey
The blu ray release
AUJ Extended Edition
More production diaries
More books and merchandise
the special event spotlighting Desolation online
The Desolation of Smaug
DOS blu ray release
DOS Extended Edition
More books and merchandise
Battle of the Five Armies
BOFA blu ray release
BOFA Extended Edition
When you lay it all out like that, there were SO MANY things to look forward to! I will genuinely miss the anticipation and excitement, which is part of the reason I am hoping for more movies! (I know...unlikely and unpopular in some circles) But wouldn't it be great to have a new trilogy to get excited about again?
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Jeffrodo
Nevrast
Dec 2 2015, 5:21pm
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Yes, sorry! :)
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KingTurgon
Nargothrond
Dec 2 2015, 5:33pm
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Star Wars is cool and all, but it's not the same without George Lucas at the helm.
Anyways, ya, I'm a couple years older than you (I'm 22) but I feel almost exactly how you described in your post. I've even added a couple of Howard Shore's soundtrack tracks to my list of Christmas music!
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DainPig
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Dec 2 2015, 7:07pm
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I started my adolescence two months before AUJ - A good way to start it 
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ghost_matt
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Dec 2 2015, 7:56pm
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I was 12 when I first read the books....
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back in 1995. I grew up on the cartoons before that. I can remember reading the books and, having not seen the animated movies since I was a kid, how excited I was when my mom bought the Rankin/Bass Hobbit and Bakshi LOTR for me (and we rented ROTK from the library because the store didn't have it). Even though I think they're kind of lame now, I loved those movies back then and would have a marathon every weekend. Up until high school I used to have sleepovers and my friend and I would stay up till 4 in the morning watching them.
I first heard they were making a live action LOTR in early 1998 in an issue of Entertainment Weekly, before it was officially greenlit, and remember the first messageboards and following all the rumors until it sounded like the project might be canned... Then one day my mom showed me the article where New Line officially announced the trilogy. That was back in the days before Star Wars Episode 1 had even come out.
I LOVE the Hobbit movies, but there was nothing like being there when it was all new, when PJ was still an unproven director and we didn't know if the movies were going to be any good. Seeing all three Hobbit movies in the theater was a great experience, but you kind of already knew what you were getting and there had been so many big budget fantasy movies in the 10 years since FOTR came out. FOTR came out a month after the FIRST Harry Potter movie, and we didn't have much in the way of big budget fantasy movies except Conan the Barbarian and Labrynth. We had never seen fantasy done so well before. There had never been a convincing CGI character before, never a massive CGI battle (it was like every movie that came out tried to one up each other with bigger and bigger armies on screen, then ROTK came out and it was like it shut everyone up), never seen cinematography like that in a fantasy movie.
But anyway, yeah I agree these movies were like Christmas presents each year, and whenever I watch any of them I get nostalgic. Like I can't believe it really been 14 years since FOTR came out. I feel like I was following the production just yesterday...
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DainPig
Mithlond
Dec 2 2015, 10:23pm
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Star Wars's really cool, nah?
Jo Lucas... lol 
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Dain Ironfoot has come!! And his pig's here too! It's going to be a great feast tonight, we are gonna eat Dain's pig! :0
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KingTurgon
Nargothrond
Dec 6 2015, 6:19pm
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May the Force be with you Jo 
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